--- On Thu, 5/8/08, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Dealing with interwiki disruption
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008, 12:50 PM
You realize what you are saying is the opposite of what you
mean right?
The local community should decide weather or not to give a
second chance to
the disruptive user. Such a decision should not be made bu
the disruptive
user.
When a disruptive user blocked on some other wiki starts
editing another
wiki. Consider a user indef banned from en.wikiquote starts
to edit
en.wikisource... The local community should know exactly
who they are
dealing with.
En.WS can figure out if they are disruptive or not without help. "Disruption"
is as often as not due to the context of the situation. I don't believe that users
are inherently disruptive, but only become disruptive when they are a bad fit with the
culture of the wiki. Just because someone cannot handle writing a neutral encyclopedia
article on abortion on en.WP does not mean they will cause problems if they come to en.WS
and transcribe US court descisions on abortion. The sister projects all have different
angles and sometimes a person is just a bad fit for a certain angle. Users should be
banned for disruption where they cause problems not where they haven't.
Birgitte SB
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